A cokpokatxon



ldatented den" 2, i923.

s s.) J n .a

menses a n; a; 1

JUIJUS MALTBY, 0F V/ATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY BUCKLE 60., 03? WATER BUPJY, CONNECTIGUT, A CQRPORATION.

BUCKLE.

Application filed December 12, 1921. Serial No. 521,860.

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that i, JULrUs MALTBY, a citizen of the United States, residing ll aterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying; drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application and represent in- Fig. 1 a view in front elevation of a ter-lniclrle embodying my invention, applied to a short length of ter-webbing.

li ig. 2 an view thereof.

-3 a rear view thereof, with one corner oi the extreme lower end of the webbing broken away.

i Fig. a view thereof in vertical sect-ion. Fig. 5 a detached view in trcnt elevation oi the buckle-Mame.

Fig. (3 an end view thereof. Fig; 7 an enlarged, sectional view on the line 7-7 oi 6.

Fig. 8 a corresponding; view of a modified former buckle, showing a cupped rather than a perforated pintie-receivinp; ear.

lviy invention relates to an improvement in buckles for personal wear, such as garter and suspender buckles. the object being to produce a simple, convenimit ellectivc and compact buckle constructed with particular reference to economy in its use of webbing and to its adaptation to be assembled. by the jobber, so that he may use buckle-levers, in great variety of design, with a standard buckle-frame.

l Vith these ends in view, my invention consists a buckle having: certain details on l combi parts ereinal. n the claims.

n carrying; out my invention, as herein shown, l employ sheet-1 tal .lnickle-irarne 10 provided at its ends with integral, forwnidly-turned ears 11 standing at :1 right angle to it and perforated as at for the reception of flat pintles 13 respectively lo cated at the ends oi the serrated grippingarm 14- of the buckle-lever 15, from the upper edge of which the said arm 14 is bent rearwardly at nearly a right angle. It is customary in the trade to make the front faces of the levers 15 in a great variety of designs, without otherwise changing them.

To provide for the speedy and convenient manual installation of the buckle-levers into the frames thereof, one of the arms 11 of each frame is formed with a V-shaped iiute or crimp 16 arranged radially,'as it were, with respect to the perforation 12 in the said arm, the widest end of the flute being formed in the edge of the arm, so as to cause the flute to open outward and thus provide a guide for the fiatwise introduction into it or" one of the pintles 13 of any given bucklelever, the other pintle whereof has previously been insertedv into the perforation 12 of the other arm 11 of the buckleirame. The lever is now crowded flatwise etween the two arms, whereby the same are sprung apart just enough to permit the guided pintle to snap into the perforation at which the said crimp terminates. The lever is now securely held in place in the buckie-irame, the arms of which spring back into place as soon as crowding pressure upon the lever is removed.

By reason of the construction just above described, the manufacturer is enabled to produce and ship buckle-frames and bucklelevers in bulk, leaving it to the jobber to put them together, whereby the jobber using a standard buckledrame may furnish different customers with buckles having as many buckle-frames varying in design, though not in essential form and structure.

The said buckle-frame 10 is cut and struck from front to rear to form two horizontal rows of opposed, rearwardly-projecting r'asterling-prongs or hooks, of which those of the lower row point upward and those of the upper row point downward, as shown in Figure 3. in which the prongs of the respective rows are arranged in line with each other. These two rows of prongs are separated bv a parallel, rearwardlystruck; rib 18 located centrally between them and des ned to form a hump 19 in the web bi 20, as it passes over the rib. This hump, by contact with. the wearer of the buckle, if used as a gs.liter-buckle holds the same sufliciently away from the skin. to preclude any possibility of the clinched and embedded ends 21 of the prongs 17 scratching the leg. The rib or webbing-elevator 18, however, is not essential, though I shall preferably employ it, nor it essential that I shall employ two rows of fasteningprongs, as one would su'flice.

As shown, the upper edge of the back of the buckle-frame is turned -rearwardly at a right angle to form an abutment-fiangc substantially corresponding in depth to the thickness of the webbing and providing a stop therefor, as well as furnishing a finish for the buckle by covering and concealing the raw edge of the end of the webbing.

The said flange also facilitates the initial application of the webbing and effects an economy thereof, since otherwise great care would have to be taken in POSltlOlllnQ the webbing upon the back of the buckle-frame, before clinching the prongs upon it. Without the said flange, the end of the webbing would oftentimes be carried beyond the upper edge of the frame, entailing a waste of ,webbing and resulting in an article of poor appearance, so that, while this abutmentflange is not necessary, it'is highly desirable feature of improved garter-buckle.

In the modification shown by Figure 8, the ear 11 of the buckle-frame is cupped. as at 23, for the reception of one of the pintles ofthe buckle-lever, instead or" being formed with a perforation 1 2 for the same as shown in Fig 7;

I claim:

1. In a buckle, the combination with, a buckle-frame provided at its ends with forwardly-projectin-g, pintle-carrying ears, h ing its upper edge turned rearwardly to form an abutment-flange, and formed with rearwardly-projecting fasteningprongs adapt purpose,

, ed in length to pass through the webbing raeaeee in place thereby, so as to hold the ends of the prongs away from the surface with which the rear face of the buckle is in contact; of a buckle-lever pivotally mounted in the ears of the buckle-frame.

In a buckle, the combination with a buckle-frame, of a buckle-lever mounted therein, two rows of prongs cut from the buckle frame and projecting rearwardly therefrom for the application thereto of the end of a piece of webbing, and a rib,

projecting rearwerdly from the buckleframe between the said rows of prongs and producing a hump in the webbing, whereby the wearer is protected against being scratched by the ends of the prongs.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULIUS MALTBY.

I/Vitnesses MARTIN 'I. LYNN, CHEsTER LITTLE. 

